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It’s been a busy week of work & moving, so this is a quick one. The waist size is 40 1/2 inches – down 1/2 inch since last week so climbing up & down stairs moving stuff into the new place must be having some affect. As for the food budget, we spent $150.35 last […]

Twenty-two weeks in and how are things – well, my diet hasn’t improved much from Week Twenty-One. I’ve had a lot of doughnuts & coffee, which, while not meat, are not exactly healthy. So, the vital stats are: Waist size: 41 inches, Cash spent on food: $125.03. I made some pretty good hummus this week […]

For the first half of last week I was the most hardcore food matters eater ever. I ate so may veggies on Monday that I barely ate on Tuesday, then ate more vegetables & fruit salad on Wednesday & Thursday. Then I got into a really busy weekend, and ate at a pub on Friday, […]

Twenty weeks in my waist size is 40 1/2 inches and we spent $121.79 on food last week. I’ve been doing some thinking on the waist size and while it is going down, it is going down very slowly. Now, this may be the route to long-term, permanent weight loss, but more likely it means […]

I seem to be getting worse and worse about getting my roundups posted on time, but here’s the roundup for last week, (ending this past Sunday). The waist size, (measured Tuesday morning, not the customary Monday morning), was 40 3/4 inches. This is an increase of 1/4 of an inch. On the budgetary front we […]

I haven’t had a chance to write about what’s been happening but it hasn’t been that exciting on the food front. I have been keeping track of the vital stats though. After 17 weeks I had a waist size of 41 1/2 inches, and we spent $256.21 on food in the 17th week, and after […]

Here we are at the end of week sixteen. Starting with the numbers, my waist is down to 40 3/4 inches this week, that’s down 3/4 of an inch from last week, which is pretty awesome. It’s looking like I might break into the 30s soon, (in more ways that one…). On the budgetary side […]

Wow, fifteen weeks. Time is chugging along. This week’s numbers: Waist size is 41 1/2 inches, that’s up an inch from last week, something that I’m going to blame on beer gas. Maybe this week will appear to have a huge drop because of that. We spent $225.93 on food this week. That seems kind […]

Here we go, fourteen weeks in and here are the stats: Waist size: 40 1/2 inches, dollars spent this week: $254.77. I actually think that there’s an accounting error and $75 should be attributed to last week, but I’m not trying to be scientific here, so I’ll let that slide. How are things? Generally good. […]

Well, it’s Thursday and I’m posting information that I wrote down on Monday, and should have posted on Monday. Oops! Anyway, here they are. Monday’s numbers: waist size of 41 inches, (up 1/4 inch – yay easter candy, ham, beans, and also Chinese buffet). Money spent: $152.09, pretty much in line with how things have […]

What is Choices That Matter?

I'm a guy named John, and I do most of the writing around here. I went from a really active lifestyle to a really inactive lifestyle very quickly and my body is noticing. On top of that I'm worried about what's happening to our planet, so, I'm trying to do something about it.

For Christmas I received the book Food Matters, which I found very interesting and inspired me to start changing. Check out my first post for the beginning of the story.